by Tony Wyman “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” – W.E.B DuBois In the seminal novel about a dystopian totalitarian future 1984, author George Orwell penned the line “Ignorance is Strength” as one of the three slogans of the dictatorial political party of “Big Brother” that […]
by Shannon D. Hanson Jonathan Shuttlesworth runs a business in Pennsylvania that has annual receipts a nudge north of 2.5 million dollars. He doesn’t pay a dime of income taxes on that money because Jonathon runs it as a church. Did I say church? Sorry, Jonathon says he doesn’t have a church […]
by Tony Wyman If it wasn’t for the 2016 flare-up of Bernie Sanders‘ supporters, America wouldn’t be suffering through the fourth year of the worst presidency in the nation’s history. Yes, Bernie Bros, you are the reason Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump four years ago. A whopping 12% of you threw your […]
by Richard Cameron The Electoral College, “Faithless Electors” and the 2020 US Presidential Election As if the uncertainties that loom over the 2020 Presidential election are not severe and sobering enough, mainly featuring the ongoing efforts of the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin to subvert America’s most vital democratic process – another contingency […]
by Richard Cameron Americans in Red states commonly imagine that Democrats in solid Blue states like California are all monolithic ally situated on the political margins – as in that they are in lockstep with each other. A recent decision by the San Francisco Board of Education put the lie to that notion. […]
by Tony Wyman “Democracy in Retreat.” That was the headline for the annual assessment of global freedom completed recently by Freedom House, the independent watchdog group founded in 1941 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. that works to expand freedom and democracy in countries around the world. The year 2018 marked the 13th consecutive decline in world […]
by Kseniya Kirillova While analyzing all that is happening today in the United States, I’ve often noticed the striking similarity between the behavior and propaganda of President Trump with his entourage and President Putin’s Russia. The similarities are so obvious that sometimes it seems that Trump and his team’s methodologies were written in Moscow. Renown Russian opposition […]
By Lynda Bryant-Work Collusion. Collusion. Collusion. The collusion drama plot thickens. The tangled web between President Donald Trump and Russia continues to get darker and the Jerry Springer-like antics of the president on Twitter and misinformation cloud the issue. As most know, Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, revealed that he, along with Trump’s […]
By Lynda Bryant-Work Freedom of the press is on the verge of collapse and with it goes liberty. Around the world in 2017, a total of 65 media workers and journalists were killed, 326 imprisoned and 54 held hostage. The deadliest countries for journalists are Syria, Mexico, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Philippines. Countries holding […]
